Bought a somewhat neglected ‘00 LX this summer. PO brought it up from the south, so undercarriage is fairly clean with minimal surface rust.
Supposedly T belt was done but I went ahead and replaced it myself along with new radiator. When draining the block, the driver side drain was clogged. I unscrewed the drain and stuck a small screw driver in there and out came the rust bits with water.
Flushed the block a few times then decided I should flush the heater core too. Didn’t find any rust bits from the core…or so I thought.
Got done reassembling rad, T belt, water pump, fan clutch, etc. and started to burp the cooling system. Full blast heat front and rear. Heat came out fairly nice until cooler weather when I noticed front wasn’t hot at all. Rear was piping hot. Front heat would get luke warm only if I turn on recirculating mode. When I set mode to max hot to face and feet, fresh air from outside, air from face vents is slightly warm and feet would get cool air.
Today I decided to flush the core again and found this:
With this out of the front core the front heat is a lot better than before but still not as hot as rear. Air to defrost and face with fresh and recirculating is “hot” but, still not getting heat to feet unless I select recirculating mode.
Any thoughts on how I should proceed with this?
Also, I plan to do a full cooling system flush this spring/summer. Is there any recommended chemical I should use? I would like to get most if not all the rust out of the cooling system.
Thanks in advance.
Supposedly T belt was done but I went ahead and replaced it myself along with new radiator. When draining the block, the driver side drain was clogged. I unscrewed the drain and stuck a small screw driver in there and out came the rust bits with water.
Flushed the block a few times then decided I should flush the heater core too. Didn’t find any rust bits from the core…or so I thought.
Got done reassembling rad, T belt, water pump, fan clutch, etc. and started to burp the cooling system. Full blast heat front and rear. Heat came out fairly nice until cooler weather when I noticed front wasn’t hot at all. Rear was piping hot. Front heat would get luke warm only if I turn on recirculating mode. When I set mode to max hot to face and feet, fresh air from outside, air from face vents is slightly warm and feet would get cool air.
Today I decided to flush the core again and found this:
With this out of the front core the front heat is a lot better than before but still not as hot as rear. Air to defrost and face with fresh and recirculating is “hot” but, still not getting heat to feet unless I select recirculating mode.
Any thoughts on how I should proceed with this?
Also, I plan to do a full cooling system flush this spring/summer. Is there any recommended chemical I should use? I would like to get most if not all the rust out of the cooling system.
Thanks in advance.